I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

Because I’m not in a record deal, I don’t have to operate in an album format.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Over the years I’ve met quite a few big rappers. Then it exploded with 50 Cent, and I did a book with him. It’s always a strange meeting of two worlds, it’s very exciting.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I’d become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It’s the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off ‚Mailbox Money‘ than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I’m very free-spirited.

All I do is make music.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.